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What’s more important, a secure homeland, a secure Mideast, or less photos of undressed goth-punk girls? It’s all about priorities.

One count of criminal conspiracy, a felony. Delay has to step down as House majority leader.

cnn.com story: DeLay attorney Bill White: It’s a skunky indictment if they have one.
Scott McLellan is currently being brutalized by the White House press corps over the DeLay indictment. Helen Thomas just asked at least seven follow-ups about U.S. forces torturing locals in Iraq

Harry Shearer couldn’t write one any better than this, but I’m sure it won’t keep him from doing a Le Show satire.

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Does the “Play” bubble include pornography? Downloading pirated/copyrighted movies, games, software and music? Surfing the web while you should be working?
Ooops, yes, those would all fall under the “Rich User Experience” bubble, right.

We all reserve the right to perceive him as a sleazily pretentious, quasi-journalistic blowhard, however.

This past weekend’s peace marches have provoked some muckraking.
Who is ANSWER and what’s their affiliation and history? Gal Beckerman’s CJR Daily piece comes up with some unsettling answers.
Andrew Sullivan has been a merciless critic of the way the Bush administration is conducting war in Iraq. However, an entry in today’s Daily Dish points to a Christopher Hitchens Slate piece regarding the ANSWER question, among others. The latter is a Hitchens masterpiece of historical research, rhetoric and shadings-parsing– in other words, what he does best.

Ronald Brownstein’s news analysis in today’s LA Times examines political jockeying following Katrina and Rita: Both Democrats and Republicans increasingly view the battered landscape of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast as a giant laboratory for testing their competing domestic policy agendas.
Bush live a couple minutes ago: “We can all pitch in by being better, uh, conservers of energy.” Will talking points like this put Cheney back in the hospital?

Andrew Sullivan is pointing to a Human Rights Watch report regarding first-hand accounts of torture by U.S. forces in Iraq.
Here’s the Washington Post story. TIME chimes in, as well.
The Pentagon’s poor leadership and lack of accountability is assisting Al Qaeda and other Muslim fanatics in radicalizing the Iraqi population. Actions and stories like this will continue to stock the ranks of the insurgents.

Narcissistic 20-everythings with bad dress sense are the least of our problems.
Or are they?